Got me some free grow beds!

I went on craigslist's free section and someone happened to be giving away 2 4'x6' elevated beds. Some guy in brooklyn whose family gives tours of New York and another nice guy were hoping to get them to a good home. They are worth about $350, he told me as we loaded the lumber into my car. It was a rainy spring night in some vaguely familiar section of brooklyn. The wood is treated, so it should last a long while, he explained. I am very excited by the prospect of getting them up and running. I have my starters ready, and my direct seed packets, but there is a rather large and intimidating pile of brush standing between me and my goal. So I will have to bag up a heck of a lot of stuff before I'll have the space cleared for my lovely raised beds.

Still, I am grateful that the universe conspired to give me free grow beds (well, almost free- I bought them a 6 pack of Magic Hat beer, one I'd never tried, as compensation. We don't have to understand how something is going to happen, we just have to have faith that it will. The details will take care of themselves. I find that this part, having faith and letting go, is the hardest part. But I am willing to try because it seems impossible to grow without faith and letting go. in the garden I find I lack faith that the seeds I have planted will amount to anything. Sometimes I lack that faith in myself as well, that I will not amount to anything much, just be another being come and gone without much disturbance to the current. I've always wanted to be an instrument of positive change, a revolutionary. My lack of faith causes me to crowd the earth with seeds, and the metaphor stretches over to my life as well. Rather than focusing, I disperse many seeds of ideas. Some stick, some don't. They seem to prioritize themselves. I may disappoint others from time to time, but I am happy.

Reza is refusing to nap, having rested for only 5 minutes. Now, if I'm not mistaken, he is banging on the wall! This kid is a trip. I can't imagine what he'll be like in a few years!